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Manicheism—based on the teachings and revelations of the third century Persian mystic, Mani—was for over a thousand years one of the major world religions, rivaling Christianity, Islam, or Buddhism. Its widespread influence is found in Eastern and Western thought alike, from Tibetan Buddhism to the young Augustine of Hippo.
With the suppression of the Bogomil and Cathar heresies in the Middle Ages, the Manichean vision faded into obscurity, its scriptures destroyed or lost and its esoteric teaching corrupted and misunderstood. However, twentieth century archaeology has restored a number of Manichean texts, and a renaissance of Manichean studies is now in progress. Andrew Welburn brings together some of these forgotten and fragmented treasures with a commentary that chronicles the new light now being thrown on the relationship between Mani’s “religion of light” and Christianity..
Andrew Welburn is a fellow of New College, Oxford. He has written, translated, and edited numerous books on spiritual science and early Christianity.
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